NOTHING CHANGED IN 11 YEARS, CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN HAVE NOT DECREASED, SAYS NIRBHAYA'S MOTHER

“It has been 11 years and nothing has changed. We got justice with everyone’s cooperation but several cases are stuck in the lower court for 10 to 12 years,” said the mother of the 23-year-old paramedic student whose gang-rape and murder on December 16, 2012, had seared the nation’s soul.

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The student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless one — was raped and brutally assaulted inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six people, before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, in Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Of the six accused, Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail days after the trial began in the case while the juvenile was released in 2015 after spending three years in a correctional home. The other four convicts — Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) — were hanged to death in Tihar jail on March 20, 2020.